Cryptids Island

An eccentric billionaire is promising a big reward to whoever can prove the existence of cryptids — hidden creatures. The hunt is on for Bigfoot, Nessie, and other legendary beasts. But watch out: you’re not the only one in search of these monsters…and your competitors will stop at nothing to find them!

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These pictures are collected in your Poptropica photo album in the profile section. Click to enlarge.

The house in New Jersey where you sight the Jersey Devil has the number 666 on the front gate (the last 6 is hanging upside-down so it looks like a 9). 666 is considered to be the number of the beast (the devil).

Starting from December 2, 2010, players could visit a preview version of Cryptids Island, where they could look through a viewfinder once a day for a chance to spot Nessie. If you saw her, you’d win a special Nessie Hat. Other interesting sights included seeing Balloon Boy, Captain Crawfish’s ship, a carrot, bag of popcorn, all kinds of dogs, toy sailboats, fish jumping out of the water, a seagull, pelican, motorboat, helicopter, etc.

Now, if you look through the viewfinder at Loch Ness, you can spot planes, Balloon Boy, and even a fishing boat that matches the one on the docks of Counterfeit Island, called Ribica.

If you have the Garden Shears, you can click on the untrimmed hedge next to the well-dressed lady in the rich housing estate next to Mews Mansion and trim the hedge however you like. Make something artsy!

The yellow jeep at Loch Ness says “Lema” – a reference to former Pop Creator James D. Lema.

The fence beside the gate to the Mews Mansion is patterned with a foot motif.

The Bigfoot Fanatic costume was released in the Poptropica Store on December 22, 2010.

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An eccentric billionaire is promising a big reward to whoever can prove the existence of cryptids — hidden creatures. The hunt is on for Bigfoot, Nessie, and other legendary beasts. But watch out: you’re not the only one in search of these monsters…and your competitors will stop at nothing to find them!

OMG! I saw that too! cryptids island is so much fun! I just cant find him after he saves me from the woman on the water near the lighthouse ! she broke my leg! anywho, i am pregnant with bigfoot! jkjkjkjkjkjk hahaha just kidding! iwas mimicing one of the videos in mews’s lab.

part 1
first talk to the guy in front of the souvenir shop holding the soccer ball, he will give you a harold mews flyer. now go east to the area with all of the rich people and go to the end of the block and jump in the tree in between 2 branches there is a 5 dollar bill. Now go back to the general store and buy a energy drink then once again go back to the rich neighborhood and talk to the landscaper next to the overgrown bush and give the drink to him. now he will give you a pair of shears and go west to where you find the people ready to take off in blimps, hang gliders, balloon chairs that look like they were pulled out of the movie up and jump up the light house and get in the hot air balloon and use the shears to cut the rope. now you get the leftover nylon rope. go over to the free kite store (if only that was real) and talk to the lady giver her the nylon rope and pick out the kite surfer x250. now go over to the kite area and use the kite surfer where shortly afterwards grimlock burns your kite where you are rescued by mr mews

part 2
you will find yourself in a bed in mr mews’ mansion after talking with you he leaves the room. click the glass of water on the bed stand next to you and get out of bed and leave the room. now go to the bottom right part of the mansion. now just go through and watch all of the videos (you dont have to watch them completely but they are entertaining) now after all of this mr mews will appear after talking to him now go outside and use the helicopter. go to the himalayas and talk to a sherpa (not in camp he is on a cliff a few rocks below the second rope which says “you cannot go up without a guide”) now jump across a series of gaps and tie the rope to the ring by clicking on it. now if you mess up you may have to start over.

part 2 continued
now at the end of this you will find yourself at the monk temple. and yet again go up a series of rocks until you are on top of a building with a monk on it. after beating him at a game of yeti vs hunters. afterwards you can go inside the monk temple and talk to the monk next to the yeti scalp. he will give you a lantern. now unfortunately it is of no use at the moment and you need to find a camera for a yeti foot print which is above the temple on a cliff next too some bushes with pink flowers on them.

part 3
now go off to Ireland. when you get there go over to the pub. go inside and you will find a box of matches and a guy who wants to play darts for a ticket on the rowboat. for the darts game pull back the dart too about the midway point and let it go. as for aiming just point and click where the dart tip is. after beating him you get his darts and a ticket for the rowboat. but again you do not have a camera and cannot take a picture of the (fake loch ness monster set up by the rowboat guy). now go over to puerto rico and talk to the guy with the mustache. after a short talk he gives you the keys to his jeep and asks for you to deliver corn too his brother. while driving around you may find a place full of goats. on top of a large rock there is a guy i will kindly refer too as Goat Man. Goat Man will give you a useful tip on finding chupacabra, and that it only attacks groups of goats of 3 or more

part 3 continued.
the chupacabra also only attacks goats with spots. now when you want too deliver the seed to the guy with the jeeps brother. when you get there give it too him and ask him about the chupacabra he will say that it attacked his chickens and went through the fence, now go over to the broken part of the metal fence and pick up the (hint so you wont waste your time) coyote hair. now too get the camera go to ireland and help the man get his truck stuck out from underneath the bridge. to do this talk to the guy offer him help and then click on the left tire and click the valve stem on the tire and release the air in the tire. then he will give you the camera. now go out on the rowboat using the rowboat ticket you got earlier and back too the top of the cliff above the monk temple and take pictures of the so called loch ness creature and bigfoot foot print

NOTE : This answer contains spoilers.
Cryptids Island is the 16th island in Poptropica, with a release date of January 17, 2011. Early Access was available to paid monthly members beginning December 20, 2010. A preview of one section was available prior to release.

* Cliff Park / Main Street / Mansion Row

Main street consists of three buildings : Bert’s Bed and Breakfast (multiplayer room), the General Store, and Kitty’s Kites. To the left is Cliff Park and to the right is a row of mansions, including the home of billionaire recluse Harold Mews. You receive a flyer announcing the Mews million-dollar reward for proof of the existence of cryptids : legendary creatures whose existence is unconfirmed by fact.
At the General Store, everything is too expensive (but have no prices on them). You could get a free kite at Kitty’s, but the most interesting, the KiteSurfer X-250, does not have any nylon rope to use. Continue right to the row of mansions. The Mews mansion is gated and locked, but you can find $5 in the tree just before you get there. His gardener is overworked and thirsty.
Use the $5 to buy a sports drink at the General Store and give it to the gardener, who will loan you his shears. Take them left, past Main Street to Cliff Park.
Help the other adventurers on their way. Give the hang glider a push and use the shears to cut loose the hot air balloon. You will get some nylon rope.
Go back to Kitty’s Kites and get the KiteSurfer. Take it to Cliff Park and launch it into the waves. You will surf for awhile until evil Gretchen Grimlock shoots a flare into the kite, leaving you to flounder until you are rescued by a helicopter owned by Mews.

* Mews Mansion and Museum, and the Cryptid Hunt

You are recovering after your rescue, and Mews offers to help you in the hunt for evidence of the Cryptids. Drink the last of your medicine and follow him to his Museum and Laboratory. After you familarize yourself with the creatures, he lets you use his helicopter to travel to locations around the world. Exit the house and go to the Heliport. Your first stop should be Loch Ness, because you will need items from there at other locations.
Loch Ness (Nessie) – The ticket counter for the Rowboat and Submarine is closed, but you can view the loch from the hill above, using the binocular telescope.
Help the man whose truck is stuck under the bridge. Let some air out of the tires to lower it. The driver will give you his Digital Camera. Continue right to the Pub.
In the Pub, pick up the book of matches from the bar.
Play darts against the players there. If you win, you get a Rowboat Ticket. (to throw, aim at the center and “pull back” — lower your dart — between 1/2 and 3/4 of the way to the dartboard edge, then release) Eventually you will win and get the ticket.
Go left to the Loch and take the Rowboat ride. While on the loch, you will get a photo of some “humps” in the water. You could return to the Mews Mansion with it. But to save travel, you can continue on to the rest of the four sites, beginning with the Himalayas.

At the Himalayas, there is a base camp set up, and you meet another fortune hunter. But none of the guys is going to help you up the mountain in search of the Yeti. The monastery at the top of the mountain has the alleged scalp of a Yeti. Begin climbing left until you meet a helpful Sherpa guide.
With the Sherpa, climb the mountain using the Rope Anchors. As you go up, you must tie off the rope at each of the round anchors along the way, and wait for the Sherpa to catch up. (Even if you don’t slip, the play is extremely glitchy.) Avoid slipping, and don’t move until he ties up.
At the mountain-top monastery, go in and talk to the head monk. He will not give you the Yeti scalp, because it is a sacred artifact.
He does give you a lantern, which you can light at any time with your matches.
Leaving, you climb the mountain at left, and meet another monk who will challenge you to a simple game of Hunt The Yeti (fox and hounds), which you must win to go further. To win, move toward the hunters, then back and to one side, and eventually one will make a mistake and let you reach the left side. The monk lets you pass.
Go down the path, climb the temple, and go up and left higher on the mountain. At the upper left, you will find a clearing with flowers blooming. There is a large footprint that might have been made by the Yeti. Take a photo, then go back down across the rope bridge to return to the helicopter. The next stop is Puerto Rico.

In Puerto Rico, the farmers and goat herders are concerned about losing livestock to the Chupacabra (goat sucker). The farmers rescue another of Gretchen’s victims from a tree. He offers to let you use his jeep to drive around the countryside. As you drive, you find yourself splashing through streams, knocking down fences, and scattering herds of goats.
In the jeep, drive up the road to the first “star” on the map (middle right). This is the herder’s brother, who shows you some fur left on his barbed wire after an attack. It is supposedly from the chupacabra. Collect it from the fence.
The second star (top left) has a resident who says that the Chupacabra prefers spotted goats. You can see them nearby. If you climb the springy poes to the right, there is a Bolt Cutter at the top.
The third star (center) is Snaggletooth rock, where three spotted goats are sure to attract the Chupacabra.
At the fourth star (middle left), the resident says that the Chupacabra only attacks goats when there are three of them. This will figure in your ability to pursue the creature. But for now, you can leave and head for New Jersey.

In New Jersey you are looking for proof of the existence of the Jersey Devil, sort of a small, demonic-looking flying dragon. You land at a gas station in a wooded area near the interstate highway.
Enter the restroom to find claw marks and other evidence of the Jersey Devil. Writing on the wall outside and inside gives you clues.

If you collected the bolt cutters at Puerto Rico, you can open the dumpster at the gas station. Inside is the removed toilet door. When placed next to the other door inside, it gives complete (if roundabout) directions to the house in the forest : right, left, left, right, right, right, left, left.
As it is dark in the woods, use the Matches to light your Lantern.
Hop on the motorcycle parked nearby and drive into the woods. Follow the directions on the list you wrote, or just alternate, right then left turns, to reach a cul-de-sac deep in the woods, where you park.
Walk up the path to the deserted house and go inside. There are noises from above.
Climb the stairs and push the dresser over to reach the attic, where thumping sounds are being made. You see a dark, red-eyed shape emerge from a barrel, but find that it is only a raccoon. Pick up the grappling hook next to the raccoon barrel and head downstairs.
Just when you are leaving, the Jersey Devil appears in the window!
Unfortunately, you can’t get a photo. Go outside, where you see the Jersey Devil again. Apparently it has a nest in a tall tree.
Use the grapple to reach the nest and recover pieces of egg shells from the it. You now have evidence on all 4 creatures, so return to Mews.

* Back at Mews Museum Laboratory

You show your collected materials to Mews, and use the DNA Analyzer to test the samples.
Unfortunately, the Nessie photo is only tires in the water, but there is a suspicious shadowy form in the background.
The photo of the Yeti footprint turns out to be from a snowboot, so you can cross off the Himalayas as a source.
Using the DNA analyzer shows that the “Chupacabra fur” is just a coyote’s.
But you do confirm one of the four : the Egg Shells are definitive proof of the unknown DNA of the Jersey Devil.

Now you have to return to Loch Ness and to Puerto Rico to see if anything new can be found. At Loch Ness, you confront the rowboat guide about the fake photo. He leaves, and you have the rowboat for your use. Return to the pub for more conversation and more darts. One of the two players claims to have seen Nessie
Play darts against his skeptical friend to win a Submarine ticket.
Go back to the loch and take the Submarine tour. You will descend into the loch and get a photo of a “Nessie” on the bottom. It looks suspiciously like a hoax.
Back at the pub, the players confirm the hoax. The first dart player you beat returns for a rematch. But when you win, he refuses to give you anything.
However, the bartender gives you a Pennywhistle that is rumored to attract Nessie.
Return to the Rowboat and go left, then farther left into a small cove.
Blow the pennywhistle and a huge Nessie will emerge from the water!
Take a photo and return to the helicopter. (You can return later to show up the haughty dart player and display your astounding photo.) You now see what you can find back in Puerto Rico.

In your absence, the goat herder has decided to catch the Chupacabra. Take his jeep to his brother’s house again, where he suggests you use the jeep to corral three spotted goats into the rocks (center star on map) as bait for the chupacabra.
Drive over, and steer around the three spotted goats until they are all between the rocks.
Get out and meet the goat herder, who has a plan to trap the creature in a huge wooden box with locks and chains.
After a short wait, his “trap” succeeds, and the Chupacabra is caught!
Unfortunately, as you push it toward the truck, the box bursts open, releasing the savage Chupacabra, who knocks you down and escapes!
Fortunately, he has lost a tooth in the process. Pick it up and head back to the Mews mansion with proof for both Nessie and the Chupacabra.

* Mews Museum Laboratory and the Bigfoot Hunt
The photo confirms that Nessie exists.
The Chupacabra tooth shows that it is a real creature
This leaves only the Yeti / Bigfoot unproven.

But Mews has word of a sighting in the Pacific Northwest, so you fly the helicopter there to investigate. This is a new, 5th location on the helicopter’s GPS. You sight Bigfoot travelling on the ground through the trees, and he is occasionally getting out of your sight as he roams. You can spot his footprints for a few seconds before they fade away.
Fly above him and keep him in view for about two or three minutes until he reaches some caves.
You report in to Mews, but Gretchen has bugged the radio, and swoops in using her own copter, and traps Bigfoot in a cage. Fly in close to her to stop her.
Jump from your copter to hers, avoiding the rotor blades. If you fall, you can try again. To stop her, you have to open her copter’s gas tank, on the side near the door. This will spill out the fuel and force her to ditch the helicopter.
Quickly jump down to the cage and use the shears to cut the connecting rope. Descend to the ground safely using the cage’s parachute.

* Mews Museum (Finale)
The existence of Bigfoot is finally confirmed, and you are the winner of the million-dollar prize! But Mews has had financial trouble, so he hasn’t any money to buy the caves as a Bigfoot preserve.
You decide to turn down the money to keep the Bigfoot safe. :-(
But you have confirmed all 4 of the cryptids and win the Island Medallion!

It is OUT!!!! Woohoooo!! Yaaay! Here I come Nessie! Bigfoot! Jersy Devil and Chupacaba-the-vampire-sounding-cryptid! Here I come Harold Mews! :lol: <- This "LOL" smiley is a shouting-for-joy-smiley. Oops… I just realized I'm not a member… :( Rats.

I am very disappointed. I got the first round of evidence and got in the helicopter… I pressed mews mansion…. and it placed me outside the mansion with the guy w/ the white beard!!!! AND the gate was closed! I cant get in nomatter what i do! Is it a glitch or what?

Hijuyo: It’s a glitch; hopefully it’ll get fixed soon. In the meantime, you could get more evidence from the other places first and maybe the next time you try to go back to the Mews Mansion, you’ll be inside.

I accidentally used my rowboat ticket before I had the camera, and now the guy on the rowboat won’t let me on because I don’t have a ticket! The guy with the darts isn’t there anymore so I can’t replay him for a ticket again. What should I do?

Hijuyo: Sounds like a stuck situation… hopefully if you try again you can try and get on the boat or play darts again anyway.

There seems to be a glitch that everyone is struggling with, characters in Puerto Rico keep saying ‘char2′ ‘char3′ and ‘chat or battle’ and this is stopping me from riding the jeep to go to other villages so i can’t complete the island. Any help??

Hijuyo: Sorry, all these people can do is wait and hope Poptropica fixes this glitch. :(

Thumbs up if the jersey devil looked out the window, gave you a fright and you ran off of your computer and you hid behind the couch, for me I ran out of my house, had a nightmare that I was being eaten by a jersey devil and I actually saw one in my backyard. I can prove it. but it didn’t look like the one in poptropica. It had a head similar to that of a human head. It had wings like a giant vampire. And it had horse legs.

Yea that does sound really scary dude! I had an encounted too: o.o
Well I haven’t been able to sleep lately because I’ve been thinking of a special boy (<3) lol anyways so I went outside to sit on my deck and I got that weird feeling that I was being watched. So I flicked on my flashlight (cuz im not goin outside w/out one o_O) and I skimmed it over my yard (which is like half forest) All of a sudden, the light got some eyeshine and i focused it and saw….well a horse on two feet with wings. At first I thought I was crazy….but then it flew up and came closer towards me….O_O so I got freaked out and ran inside screaming. I woke up my parents saying "Oh my god there is a monster outside!" So we ran out to see if it was all there…but. It was gone :( Only leaving footprints in the snow in the yard/woods and on my roof. So I'm a believer!

i need help my game was in progress and it was at the part where the game gives you the ticket to ride the boat and the game glitched then the man disappear out of no where and i can no longer get the ticket how do i reset the game??
JSYK (just so you know) mythology is one of my favorite subjects in life so someone help me D:

Thank you! I complained to the creators of Poptropica about the fact that their FREE+ items are not fair for non-members, and the Declaration of Independence states that every man is created equally, so that means (more or less) that all Poptropicans are created equally.

Yeah. Members get benefits because they paid for them, just as you’d go to a store and buy something – as opposed to taking whatever you want. All islands are still accessible to any Poptropican anyway. It’s not equal, sure, but it’s fair (yes, there is a difference).

The game keeps freezing every time I try go on the rowboat to take a pic of The Loch Ness Monster. I have everything, the camera, the two false pics (one of the wheels on the rowboat and one from under the water in the submarine) and i have even beaten that guy you play darts with!!
Its so annoying! And its my last mission until I complete the island!!

hey i gave the thirsty man a sports drink but he never gave me any scissors and since it saved the game im basicly pissed. but since i have so much proggress on my account i dont want to restart!!!!!!!!

Hijuyo: If there’s a glitch in the island quest, all you need to do is restart the island by going to the Map. It won’t restart your whole account, just the island.

Help me!! Im on the loch ness one, and i talked to the guy who’s truck was stuck under the bridge, and i clicked his tire to help him, but i cant get the air out!!! I clicked the valve, dragged the valve, clicked it and dragged it in circles, but it wont work.. Help? Is it a glitch??

To get a kite from the store, you will need to click “Use” on your Nylon Rope while you’re there. If you need more details, please take a look at our guide here and follow the steps. The $5 is for a sports drink.

I live near the Jersey Devil woods. One night I was waiting for Mom to get her phone from the house. I heard a screech and i turned on my flashlight. ”Dad? YOU BETTER NOT BE PLAYING TRICKS ON ME!!” I said as I looked around. Then I saw… dun dun dun!!… THE JERSEY DEVIL!!!!!!!! OMG! I RAN INTO THE HOUSE SCREAMING!!! That’s why I never go anywhere or wait anywhere outside at night

Glitch: if you are in the lab playing dna extraction put one liquids in the lab tray. then when the container is sideways quickly click the start over button then the liquid AND the container will be sideways!

i completed it 3 times also but really i do nor know why so many people are afraid of the new jersey devil,i’m not saying its cute (its totally not)but i just don’t find it scary.
p.s my username is knucklehead5249 and i’m a member (not showing off)